On January 10, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper was put into postal circulation

The Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper was instituted by the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) on November 29, 1923, as a central mouthpiece of the People's Commissariat for Military and Maritime Affairs of the USSR (afterwards, the Ministry of Defense of the USSR). The first issue was published on January 1, 1924.

During the Great Patriotic War, Krasnaya Zvezda became one of the leading national newspapers. The editorial office of the newspaper united such writers and publicists as M. Sholokhov, A. Tolstoy, V. Vishnevsky, K. Simonov, A. Platonov, V. Grossman and others.

Today, Krasnaya Zvezda is an all-Russian newspaper, a press organ of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (since January 10, 2018). It comes out three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday on 12 pages in the D2 format. The print run of the publication is 65,440 copies. The motto of the newspaper is “We guard you, Russia!”

The stamp provides an image of jubilee issues of the newspaper, as well as its awards: the Orders of the Red Star and the Red Banner, the Order of Lenin and the Order of the October Revolution.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Simferopol and Khabarovsk.


Design Artist: A. Moskovets.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Stamp size: 65×32.5 mm, sheet size: 150×155 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (2×4) stamps.
Quantity: 72 thousand stamps (9 thousand sheets).

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